Bajwa seeks special package from Modi
Friday, 11/09/2015
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Chandigarh : Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa on Thursday urged the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to announce special package for the state on the pattern of Bihar during his scheduled visit here on Friday. He also wanted the PM to clarify the status of the Punjabi farmers settled in Gujarat who continue to face the spectre of eviction.
“The financial assistance to any state should not be dictated by political considerations and rather the centre should come out with some broad formula. The package to Bihar has been announced on the eve of Assembly elections which, in a way, amounts to collectively bribing the people. Punjab is under a staggering debt of more than Rs 1 lakh crore and the farmers in this once the most prosperous state are committing suicides. PM should come out with the special package at least for the farmers in this food basket of the country to wipe out their debt,” he said.
He also wanted Modi to tell the people as to what was he now doing to implement his promise made before the Lok Sabha election through a full page ad to rid Punjab of drug menace. “ Now the involvement of the BJP leaders in drug smuggling had surfaced. Punjab was being ruined by the Akali Dal-BJP patronised drug mafia but the Prime Minister had failed to act,” he said. He also demanded that the injustice done to Punjab by earlier Atal Behari Vajpayee government that granted industrial concessions to the neighbouring states should be undone.
